Building a Hybrid Cloud Platform with Containers and OpenShift

Organizations are increasingly moving applications to the cloud. They also need the flexibility to run those application workloads in the environment that best suits their business requirements—whether that's public clouds, private clouds, virtualization platforms, or physical servers.

Join this session to learn how:

- Containers can help evolve your infrastructure with public or private clouds, virtualization platforms, or physical servers.
- Containers can help you accelerate development and deployment processes and adopt DevOps, while supporting new and existing application architectures.
- How Red Hat OpenShift, with an enterprise Kubernetes platform, can support you as you evolve your applications, infrastructure, and process.

Have you ever built a working application that automates a business process? Now's your chance to try it hands-on. In this workshop, we’ll take you through the steps required to build a simple application based on a real-world use case: automating the handling of credit card disputes.

We’ll use Red Hat® Process Automation Manager, a leading business process management (BPM) platform. Bring your laptop (no software installation required), and you’ll see how to get started with process modeling, decision modeling, and deploying your finished application to the cloud.

We’ll cover:

• How to create models of business processes and decisions using standard notations such as BPMN.
• How to convert models into fully working applications with Red Hat Process Automation Manager.

Everybody’s talking containers. Everybody’s talking Kubernetes. So many options and so little time to evaluate them all. How do you select a container platform? What’s really important?

In this session recorded at Red Hat Summit, we'll journey through the what, how, who, and why of selecting a container orchestration infrastructure. We'll start with the relationship between Linux and containers, then explore the different options available if you want to move to Kubernetes for container orchestration. Along the way, we'll debunk some myths and shine some light into the dark corners of container orchestration. You'll leave this session armed with the knowledge you need to make the right container orchestration infrastructure decision to dive into the world of cloud-native application development and accelerate innovation to better serve your customers. (This is a replay from Red Hat Summit)

Investment in application programming interface (API) management software increased by an average of 44% from 2012 to 2017, according to IDC.1 This growth reflects the tremendous importance of APIs to today’s businesses. While opening up digital assets promises new opportunities, companies must develop new processes to ensure that APIs are built efficiently and securely.

- Use mocking to speed up and break dependencies.
- Use a contract-first approach for defining tests that will harden your implementation.
- Protect exposed APIs through a management gateway.
- Manage deliveries using a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.

Business rules engines have been around for several decades and do important work at many organizations. The idea that business people could encode business policies in the form of rules that could then be used to automate business decisions was revolutionary at the time and has led to much greater efficiency and consistency in business operations. But as we look forward to a more digital future, new technologies such as AI/ML, RPA, and the Cloud are once again changing the way we approach business automation, and redefining what's possible to automate. In this session Red Hat's Phil Simpson will review some of these critical changes, and how they will impact the roles of developers and business people as we build the next generation of applications.

The session was previously recorded during the Application Architecture Summit: Integration Developer News (July 2019)

A common challenge for organizations is how to derive direct, tangible business value as a result of a cohesive rules strategy.

Please join Fred and Anand to learn about successful use cases that quickly showed benefits for cost savings, business acceleration, and overall simplification of business processes with rules solutions from Red Hat.

Kubernetes scales and manages stateless applications easily. Stateful applications require more work. Databases, caching systems, and file stores are harder to dynamically manage with data intact, and they often come with their own notion of clustering. Operators are Kubernetes agents that automatically deploy, scale, manage, back up, and even upgrade complex, stateful applications.

This technical webinar will provide an update on the Operator pattern from Red Hat—adopted by many community projects like Rook, Prometheus, and others—and supported by a Framework and software development kit (SDK) that make it easier to automate your applications.

"Everyone knows that building containers is easy. Or is it? Have you ever wondered if it’s too easy? Are you following all the “best practices?” Which ones are relevant? What about security considerations?

In this session, we’ll look at several strategies and provide recommendations for creating container images that can be confidently deployed in production environments. "

Maintaining visibility, control, and security, and ensuring governance and compliance remains paramount. But it becomes more difficult and time consuming in a hybrid infrastructure consisting of physical, virtual, cloud, and container environments. Also, it's becoming more and more challenging for security teams to examine and respond to the growing number of security alerts coming in from the increasing number of security tools in their security operations center. (This is a replay from Red Hat Summit)

- Create a new modern, front-end application, built with NPM/Yarn and served as static files.
- Provision a new database or messaging system.
- Share authentication information between application code and connected services.

Come ready to dig under the covers and start to learn the cloud development concepts behind our simplified getting started flows.

The hype about cloud computing is present daily. From cloud to hybrid cloud to hybrid multicloud, businesses hear that this technology is the way to ensure their digital future. As they ponder choices about cloud environments, businesses must continue the daily work of enhancing the customer experience and improving the agile delivery of applications.

In this webinar, we’ll use real customer experiences to highlight the top 3 lessons those customers learned as they transitioned to hybrid multicloud environments. We’ll look closely at:
- What hybrid multicloud means for your business.
- Decisions that affect application delivery.
- How to deal with legacy applications, likely the most important resources to your business.

Come to this session to see what it OpenShift means to you. What are the technology enhancements in 2019 and into 2020 that will change the way we think about compute, development, and how we best use these technologies on-premise and in public clouds. In a first look, we'll demonstrate new features and explain where we're taking Red Hat OpenShift and why. Don't miss this session!

Hybrid cloud has become increasingly popular. But what exactly qualifies as a hybrid cloud? What applications can benefit from a hybrid cloud approach? How do application and workload portability impact business agility? What customer successes has Red Hat had through their solutions and consulting portfolio?

Join this session to hear industry experts discuss 5 keys to their open hybrid cloud success.

Successful companies are measuring success from "idea to execution" in weeks and months. Getting there means navigating nearly unlimited technical choices, for both application and operations teams. Learn how leading companies are making the right choices for their Hybrid Cloud, to drive new market opportunities and greater business success.

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) is Director of Product Strategy at Red Hat, focused on OpenShift. He brings 20+ years of experience in Strategy, Product Management, Systems Engineering, Marketing and M&A. He is recognized as an industry thought-leader in Cloud Computing and DevOps, as well as being co-host of the award-winning podcast, The Cloudcast (@thecloudcastnet) and weekly Kubernetes podcast @PodCTL.

Jeffrey S. Hammond, Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research discusses the importance of agile integration in digital transformation initiatives. Recorded during Red Hat's Microservices, Containers, API's an Integration Day on May 21, 2019 in Chicago, IL.

About the speaker:
Jeffrey helps CIOs and digital leaders succeed by working with them to improve their software delivery capability and by helping them assess the relevance of emerging software technologies. As a 25-plus-year software industry veteran, he's helped clients improve their development shop culture, apply Agile and continuous delivery best practices, and build successful developer ecosystems.

Business process automation technology is rapidly emerging as a key to success in digital transformation projects. Automation is no longer just a set of business operations workflow items. A collaborative convergence of analytics, artificial intelligence or machine learning (AI/ML), robotic process automation (RPA), low-code development, etc. is changing the marketplace. Businesses are recognizing the value of this unified view in automating operations and decisions to improve the efficiency and agility of business operations—and thereby competitiveness and the bottom line.

The need for competitive advantage has driven organizations towards cloud computing, agile programming, and the move toward DevOps unification; and, it’s forced the modernization of IT architecture using innovative technologies such as containers, microservices, and artificial intelligence.

But unintended consequences now burden organizations with disaggregated IT infrastructure composed of redundant data centers, multi-clouds, managed services, edge computing, devices, and things. To cope, business and IT leaders must conceptualize new agile means to integrate workloads across highly distributed and disparate hybrid multi-cloud architecture.

During this webcast we discuss:
- the fundamental elements of strategic analysis and techniques needed to create new competitive advantage
- how to identify the essential technologies needed for the modern digital business
- how next-generation hybrid integration platforms can support strategic and transformative initiatives
- how some customers have embarked on this journey and their learnings
- the strategy and practices needed to enable and deploy agile integration in the hybrid multi-cloud era

Business processes touch every aspect of the way an organization runs. Therefore, business process automation cannot be an isolated environment. BPM can be a compelling part of a larger strategy, where business leaders can create the rules to achieve new innovation and business objectives.

At BBVA, we have created a new global process automation platform, building on new technological trends, which allows both our business teams and our developers to focus on the needs of our customers. This session will cover:

• How we integrated business goals into our new BPM platform
• How we transformed our process developers
• How we used Red Hat Process Automation Manager to create a new cloud-based BPM platform
• How we defined KPIs for processes optimization
• Some of the challenges and lessons we learned over the course of the project

Serverless is a misnomer; your future cloud native applications will consist of both microservces and functions, often wrapped as Linux containers, but in many cases where you the developer ignore the operational aspects of managing that infrastructure. In this session, we will dive into the capabilities of a Function-as-a-Service Platform for Kubernetes/OpenShift. The Microservices evolution was relatively easy, the programming model was nearly identical to the previous generation of Java EE. Today, Functions represent a new programming model for your next generation Java business applications. This will be a demo intensive session.

About the Speaker:
A lifelong developer advocate, community organizer, and technology evangelist, Burr Sutter is a featured speaker at technology events around the globe—from Bangalore to Brussels and Berlin to Beijing (and most parts in between). A Java Champion since 2005, Burr founded the DevNexus conference—now the second largest Java event in the U.S.—with the aim of making access to the world’s leading developers affordable to the developer community.

Applications aren’t just the back end anymore. Sure, your team may be great at building microservices, utilizing message queues, handling transactions, and utilizing CI/CD. But there is almost always a web based front end between the user and the server doing plenty of work of its own, whether that's in React, Angular or just plain HTML/CSS/JavaScript. In the brave new world of Kubernetes and containerized deployments, how does the front end best fit into the mix? Are you used to just copying your files up to the web server and forgetting about it? Well, that’s not going to cut it these days.. In this session, I will show you tips, tricks, and best practices for building and deploying your front-end applications on Red Hat’s OpenShift 4 Kubernetes platform.

About the Speaker:
Lance is a principal software engineer at Red Hat, leading the Node.js engineering efforts within Red Hat Middleware. He is an active open source contributor, an author of several NPM modules, and a core committer for the Node.js project. In addition to Node.js, you'll find his contributions in many other well-known open source projects, including: Wildfly Swarm, Vert.x, and Torquebox.

Join us for this webinar as we learn about microservices, using AI to our benefit, machine learning and more.

About the speaker:
As the founder and head of Vizuri, Joe is responsible for its overall strategic direction. Through a hands-on approach, he offers customers more than thirty years of experience as a technical architect, developer, and business leader. Joe specializes in helping executives to solve complex business problems by mapping their business processes and adopting new technologies when appropriate. He proudly works with visionary leaders in multiple industries to help them understand how to improve their business agility. Through this experience, he has become a prominent speaker on open-source technologies, and he has helped to shape industry practices in business rules.

Join this channel to learn best practices and insights on how to: containerize existing apps for increased cost efficiency, deliver new cloud-native and process-driven apps using microservice architectures, take an agile approach to integrate APIs and data, and do it all in a culture of collaboration using DevOps best practices.